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JCT Digital – Are You Making the Most of Our Online Services?

/ Digital, JCT Product Updates

Flexible options to buy and work with your JCT contracts online, plus an important notice about our JCT Contracts Digital (CD) Service JCT is committed not only to best practice in creating its suite of contracts but also in their delivery, including embracing the latest digital technologies to support the drafting process and make accessing JCT contracts easier. Two years ago, we launched our current digital services, JCT On Demand and JCT Construct, not knowing the unprecedented set of challenges the construction industry was about…

JCT Training Video Modules – Brush Up on Your JCT Contract Knowledge

/ Education, Skills and Students, JCT Product Updates

JCT Training Video Modules is the latest option available from JCT as part of its JCT Training initiative. The video modules provide a short introduction to the key elements of JCT contracts. They are convenient and useful for those wishing to refresh their knowledge of a particular aspect of a contract or familiarise themselves with a JCT contract for the first time. Available via the JCT Online Store, the videos can be purchased either individually, where a quick-reference guide on a particular aspect of a…

JCT Interviews…Robert Alflatt

/ Interviews

In the JCT Interviews… series we shine the spotlight on some of the key people who are involved with or give their time to support JCT, showing the diverse range of disciplines across the construction industry that our members represent and the collaborative work that contributes to the development of our contracts. We look at how our interviewees contribute to JCT specifically and gain their views on the wider industry and JCT’s role within it. Robert Alflatt Member, JCT Council Member, JCT Drafting Sub-Committee Group…

JCT’s Young Professionals Group Launches New ‘JCTea’ Networking Initiative

/ JCT Young Professionals Group

‘Let’s catch up over JCTea’ is an initiative developed by JCT’s Young Professionals Group (YPG), to promote networking and get to know new members by way of an informal monthly catch up. The scheme pairs up members who have signed up to take part each month at random for a short informal catch up of around 15-20 minutes. The idea behind the initiative is to introduce new members, get conversations flowing, learn about some of the different disciplines that make up YPG (and JCT) membership,…

JCT Updates Project Bank Account Documentation for 2022

/ JCT Product Updates, Latest News, Press Releases

JCT has announced the release of Project Bank Account Documentation 2022 (PBA 2022). The Project Bank Account documentation is designed to help parties to a JCT contract who wish to set up a Project Bank Account as part of their fair payment practices. PBA 2022 comprises three parts: JCT Project Bank Account Agreement (PBA). This includes the JCT form of Joining Agreement (PBA/JA). Enabling Provisions for insertion into the Building Contract and Sub-Contracts requiring the relevant parties to enter into the PBA. Guidance Notes. The…

JCT Interviews…Steve Wood

/ Interviews

In the JCT Interviews… series we shine the spotlight on some of the key people who are involved with or give their time to support JCT, showing the diverse range of disciplines across the construction industry that our members represent and the collaborative work that contributes to the development of our contracts. We look at how our interviewees contribute to JCT specifically and gain their views on the wider industry and JCT’s role within it. Steve Wood member, JCT Council member, JCT Drafting Sub-Committee senior…

New – JCT Training Video Modules

/ Education, Skills and Students, JCT Product Updates

Cover the basics of JCT Contracts with our new Video Module series of JCT Training products – convenient and useful anytime you need to brush up on an aspect of a contract or familiarise yourself with a JCT contract for the first time. JCT Training Video Modules provide a short introduction to the key elements of JCT Contracts: The individual videos cover a particular aspect of the contract, full of useful information as a quick-reference guide and to refer to at a time convenient to…

Case Study: Manchester Jewish Museum

/ Case Studies

A two-year project to restore a Grade II* Listed 19th century Synagogue and build a new extension adding a range of facilities, has delivered an upgrade to the Manchester Jewish Museum that puts the local community at its heart. With a complex mix of restoration, new build, and the installation of various specialist services, a JCT Standard Building Contract was the form of choice. An out-of-town trunk road surrounded by busy retail parks, storage warehouses, and builders’ merchants, seems an unlikely place for a museum….

Accelerating Modern Methods of Construction

/ Contractual Issues, General

Graham Robinson and Nigel Blundell explore the challenges and opportunities around the procurement, contracting and on-site delivery of infrastructure projects using Modern Methods of Construction. The UK government is committed to using its position as the single largest construction client to support adoption of a more productive, efficient and sustainable business model within the UK construction sector which is a key aim in reaching the government’s goal of Net Zero by 2050. The government announced its commitment to Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) in the…

JCT YPG – Be Part of the Future of Construction

/ JCT Young Professionals Group